LENIN AND KRUPSKAYA TO LENIN’S SISTER ANNA

Published:First published in 1930 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 4.

      Sent from Paris to Saratov.

      Printed from 
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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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May 2, 1910

DearAnyuta,

YesterdayI received your letter with the new address.Mercifor the congratulations. There is no change at all
here. Nadya is feeling rather poorly—her nerves are still
not quite in order, although by and large we are all well.
I have been cycling for some time and I often go for rides
in the country round Paris, especially as we live quite
near thefortifications, i.e., near the city boundary. We
have not yet decided anything about our summer holidays;
the summer here is a late one and it is possible we shall
again go to Bombon, where there is a cheap
boardinghouse and complete quiet, although Nadya does not seem
inclined to go there again. Perhaps this time we will try
the socialist colony at the
seaside.[1]Y.V. was there last
year and liked it.

Givemy best regards to the neighbour at
Alakayevka[2]if you manage to see him. It is a pity that he is such a
convinced enemy of correspondence because it would be
pleasant to have some news, if only rarely, from “the heart
of Russia” about what is going on in the new village. There
is little information on this subject and it would be very
pleasant just to have a chat with some knowledgeable person.

Regardsto the North
Manchurian[3]also. How is he
getting fixed up now, and will he rid himself of the “weakness”
of the Russians ... and not only of writers?...

Withregard to my grudge against the
doctor[4](whom
you asked me to do something to help) you were quite wrong,
or perhaps I accidentally said something tactless. I have
never had and still do not have the slightest grudge against
him. He makes a good impression. We never got to know
each other closely. Now he has moved out of town, where
the children will be better off. He is in very poor
circumstances; he has only just managed to find sometemporarywork for the tiniest imaginable emolument. I very seldom
see him. The émigrés here are very poor.

Mywork is going extremely badly. I hope to get over
this period of intense
squabbling[5]and will then return
to my work.

Allthe best. Regards to Mark. Best wishes from all.

Yours,V. U.

Ireceived your letter about our acquaintance a long
time ago and answered it immediately in a letter to
Manyasha. I have certain reasons for thinking that my letter was
lost, although Manyasha answered one of the questions
raised in it. I asked her to write and say whether she had
received that letter but she hasn’t written. The acquaintance
to whom you asked me to show the letter is not here now and,
furthermore, what I wrote to you was not said to him but
to another person. I will write in detail in a few days. Many
kisses. Regards to M.T. Mother sends regards.

[1]SeeLetter No. 213.—Ed. 
 —Lenin

[2]A.A. Preobrazhensky.—Ed. 
 —Lenin

[3]A.P. Sklyarenko.—Ed.

[4]M.F. Vladimirsky.—Ed.

[5]Leninrefers to the internal Party struggle, which grew sharper
after the January (“Unity”) Plenum of the G.C., R.S.D.L.P. in
1910. Lenin wrote to Maxim Gorky about this on April 11, 1910
(seeCollected Works, Vol. 34, pp. 419–22).